Council tenants with six-figure salaries

Eyebrows were raised from Ascot to Aberystwyth at the news that the Coalition was proposing to scrap access to council housing for those earning in excess of £100,000. Most people had no idea such council tenants existed.

They blithely assumed that, once people earned that kind of money, they would already own a house in London, a cottage in the Cotswolds and a ski apartment in Verbier. Suddenly, the penny has dropped. Read More: